Hi Just been reading the posts very moving. I am picking my new beagle boy Caleb up in a few weeks but I will never forget that when I was 10 I picked my girl beagle Pippa (pippi) out the the litter myself and bonded with her.

Once we had her at eight weeks she and I were inseperable and I was a shy quiet child and she was my best friend, she was cuddly and loving and always wanted to be with me and we shared an almost spiritual bond and would do anything for me and was so sweet natured and I alone trained her and she was a dream and made me so happy. I can still see her little face and see her bounding towards me tail wagging nineteen to the dozen when I called her to me.

She died from Parvo at a year old when we were on a weeks holiday in Weston. She was in boarding kennels. I knew deep down before we went to supposedly collect her from the kennels that something was horribly wrong. When we arrived at the kennels the owner of them came out and told us she had died. I just knew it. I missed her and missed her and it killed me inside when she was gone.

I have never told any one how much it hurt. People would say it was just a dog, but some dog. I would love to have a girl puppy from her lineage as she was a beautiful lovely dog and its been 21 years since she has passed.

I am so looking forward to having my new boy, but I always remember my baby girl beagle. Pippatine Showtime. PIPPI I hope she is running free somewhere happy and that one day I will see her again.

everybody here will understand - whether they live one year or fifteen years, we love our boys and girls.
such an awful thing to have happened to pippi, must have been so hard for you to understand.
i wish you many many happy years with caleb - you deserve it.

val

We never forget them, no matter how long it is. Enjoy your new boy, and make every day count - that's my motto.
Kat
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